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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > Diplomacy (remove)
  • Date > 1969-03-22 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in February or March, and I think I was made deputy assistant secretary in May. M: Right. In that position, where you were dealing with the press--this, of course, is before Mr. Johnson's, I guess, really bad trouble with the press began, so you had
  • ; goals for South Vietnam; reasons for LBJ’s unpopularity; flaws in LBJ’s handling of the press; inept press corps handling Vietnamese War; incorrect editing of press dispatches; LBJ’s abilities as a diplomat; peace negotiations 1966-1968; 1968 Paris peace